ArticlePlant physiology2015
The benefits of photorespiratory bypasses: how can they work?
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- Extending the Farquhar-von Caemmerer-Berry photosynthesis model to account for various photorespiratory bypasses.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- What farmers think about using crop biotechnology to boost photosynthesis in rice and potato.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Shortcutting photorespiration: avenues and challenges toward realizing higher-yielding photorespiratory bypass crops.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Move over endosymbionts, peroxisomes pass electrons too.Biochemical Society transactions · 2025Review
- Synthetic photorespiratory bypass more stably increases potato yield per plant by improving photosynthesis.Plant biotechnology journal · 2025Article
- NAD(H) and NADP(H) in plants and mammals.Molecular plant · 2025Review
- Alternatives to photorespiration: A system-level analysis reveals mechanisms of enhanced plant productivity.Science advances · 2025Article
- Boosting photosynthesis opens new opportunities for agriculture sustainability and circular economy: The BEST-CROP research and innovation action.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2025Review
- Synthetic photorespiratory bypass improves rice productivity by enhancing photosynthesis and nitrogen uptake.The Plant cell · 2024Article
- Perspectives on improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield.The Plant cell · 2024Review
- From leaf to multiscale models of photosynthesis: applications and challenges for crop improvement.Photosynthesis research · 2024Review
- The end game(s) of photosynthetic carbon metabolism.Plant physiology · 2024Review
- Optimizing the electron transport chain to sustainably improve photosynthesis.Plant physiology · 2023Article
- Low light intensity elongates period and defers peak time of photosynthesis: a computational approach to circadian-clock-controlled photosynthesis in tomato.Horticulture research · 2023Article
- Improving crop yield potential: Underlying biological processes and future prospects.Food and energy security · 2023Review
- Enhancing crop yields through improvements in the efficiency of photosynthesis and respiration.The New phytologist · 2023Review
- Alternative pathway to photorespiration protects growth and productivity at elevated temperatures in a model crop.Plant biotechnology journal · 2022Article
- Photorespiration in eelgrass (Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Photosynthesis research under climate change.Photosynthesis research · 2021Review
- Potential metabolic mechanisms for inhibited chloroplast nitrogen assimilation under high CO2.Plant physiology · 2021Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Bypassing the photorespiratory pathway is regarded as a way to increase carbon assimilation and, correspondingly, biomass production in C3 crops. Here, the benefits of three published photorespiratory bypass strategies are systemically explored using a systems-modeling approach. Our analysis shows that full decarboxylation of glycolate during photorespiration would decrease photosynthesis, because a large amount of the released CO2 escapes back to the atmosphere. Furthermore, we show that photosynthesis can be enhanced by lowering the energy demands of photorespiration and by relocating photorespiratory CO2 release into the chloroplasts. The conductance of the chloroplast membranes to CO2 is a key feature determining the benefit of the relocation of photorespiratory CO2 release. Although our results indicate that the benefit of photorespiratory bypasses can be improved by increasing sedoheptulose bisphosphatase activity and/or increasing the flux through the bypass, the effectiveness of such approaches depends on the complex regulation between photorespiration and other metabolic pathways.
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